Howard R. D. Gordon, Xue Xing,  Sara A. Shaw, and Mark C. Carroll (all Teaching and Learning) coauthored an article, "Why Apprenticeship Programs Matter to the 21st Century Postsecondary Education," in The CTE Journal. Shaw and Carroll are doctoral students. Additionally, Gordon, Xing, and Shaw wrote a second article, "Analysis of…

Joseph Morgan and Alain Bengochea (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) were awarded the Full Service Community Schools Grant through the U.S. Department of Education office of innovation and improvement in the amount of $2.5 million to implement a project titled ReInvent Schools Las Vegas - Community Schools Initiative…

Monica R. Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) has been awarded a grant totaling more than $1 million by the U.S. Department of Education to support special education and social work master's students. The project is titled Pedagogues Readily Addressing Interdisciplinary Special Education Requirements (Project PRAISER…

Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology), along with Robb Travers and Ketan Shankardass both from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, recently published an open-access, peer-reviewed journal article, "Stakeholder Perspectives on Ontario's Bill 13: A Macrosystem-level Intervention Supporting Gay-Straight Alliances and Other…

Adam Turl (Art) will be presenting at the London Historical Materialism conference on a panel he organized titled "Salvaging Utopia in Contemporary Art." Other presenters on the panel with include David Mabb, Program Leader of the MFA Fine Art (Studio Practice) at Goldsmiths University, London, and Anupam Roy, an artist featured in the 2018 New…

Dr. Joshua J. Goldman (Medicine) was awarded a Clinical Research Leaders Scholarship from the Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF). According to the organization, "By offering this initiative, the PSF intends to develop and strengthen a future workforce of plastic surgery researchers who are equipped to lead their field. The initiative…

Aaron Mayes (Libraries) received the 2019 Historic Preservation Award from the city of Las Vegas in the Preservation Education Category for his work curating an exhibit featuring images of Las Vegas' Historic Westside neighborhood by photographer Clinton Wright. The exhibit has previously been on display at the Historic Westside School and at…

Jef Jaeger (Life Sciences) and Anthony Waddle, '15 BS Biology, '17 MS Biology, were among an international team spearheaded by the Erica Rosenblum Lab at UC Berkeley that published “Cryptic Diversity of a Widespread Global Pathogen Reveals New Threats to Amphibian Conservation." The paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…

Philip Danquah (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Amanda Annan (Health Care Administration and Policy) presented a scientific poster at the 2019 Nevada Public Health Annual Conference last month at Whitney Peak Hotel in Reno. The poster was titled "Dapivirine Vaginal Ring Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Awareness, Perceptions, and Uptake among…